I went into the local fabric store to pick up some reupholstered chair seats, and the decorators all dropped what they were doing to admire my two-year old Amazon Orolay coat. I had to take it off, so they could try it on. I guess it’s still popular.

How crowded are your local hospitals with ICU patients?

“Certain parts of the world might one day use the effects of climate change as rungs on a ladder toward greater influence and prosperity. And the United States, despite its not-unfavorable position geographically, is more likely to lose than win — not least because so many of its leaders have failed to imagine the magnitude of the transformations to come.” You know who is going to win? Russia.

Picture: Me, aged six or seven, at my aunt’s wedding. Like every redhead, I was counting the days until I would be allowed to wear mascara.

Watching: Babylon Berlin Reading: Gossip blogs Preparing: Two foot snow storm heading this way